New directions in American religious history [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Harry S. Stout, D.G. Hart

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454194103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, c1997
• ISBN: 0-585-30487-4; 1-280-45361-3; 0-19-802720-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (513 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HartD. G (Darryl G.); StoutHarry S
• Disciplina: 277.3
• Soggetti: Christianity - United States; Electronic books.; United States Church history Congresses
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Proceedings of a conference held Oct. 21-23, 1993 in Racine, Wis.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; 1 Studies of Religion in American Society: The State of the Art; 2 Narrating Puritanism; 3 ""Christianizing the South""-Sketching a Synthesis; 4 ""As Canadian as Possible Under the Circumstances"": Reflections on the Study of Protestantism in North America; 5 God's Designs: The Literature of the Colonial Revivals of Religion, 1735-1760; 6 Religion and the American Revolution; 7 Protestantism, Voluntarism, and Personal Identity in Antebellum America; 8 Ethnicity and American Protestants: Collective Identity in the Mainstream; 9 Protestants and Economic Behavior; 10. Protestant Success in the New American City, 1870-1920: The Anxious Secrets of Rev. Walter Laidlaw, Ph.D.11 The Spirit and the Flesh: Gender, Language, and Sexuality in American Protestantism; 12 From Missions to Mission to Beyond Missions: The Historiography of American Protestant Foreign Missions Since World War II; 13 Experience and Explanation in Twentieth-Century American Religious History; 14 On Jordan's Stormy Banks: Margins, Center, and Bridges in African American Religious History; 15 Recent American Catholic Historiography: New Directions in Religious History; 16 Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Public Culture in the Twentieth CenturyAFTERWORD; 17 Later Stages of the Recovery of American Religious History
• Sommario/riassunto: The eighteen essays collected in this book had their origin in a conference of the same title, held at the Wingspread Conference Center in October of 1993. Leading scholars were invited to reflect on their specialties in American religious history in ways that summarized where the field is and where it ought to move in the decades to come.